Show American Locomotives In Europe In the details of locomotive construction con-struction the practice of Europe follows fol-lows later but surely the results ol f experience obtained In the United 1 States which are the pioneers in tho production of forms suited to large units In the adoption of the pilot truck outside cylinders large boilers flanged smoUebox tube plates wide fireboxes sloped front water legs sloped boiler heads vertical gussets and diagonal rods for staying tho latter lat-ter American wheel arrangements and the reintroduction of bar frames Europe Eu-rope has learned the fitness of American Amer-ican arrangements But not until I faced with urgent necessity have tho transAtlantic forms been adopted for and it would be foolish to conceal I the factEuropean experience of American materials American workmanship work-manship and American design of cylin ders and all that belongs to the motion mo-tion has been sudh as to prejudice the mind greatly against American types The most progressive designers and makers hae reasoned that the Amer ican system was good but that the construction materials or details i In the form were susceptible of improvement improve-ment Engineering Magazine |